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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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TACC Speeds Big Data Analytics with Nomadic Computing
Researchers at TACC have developed a new tool to analyze bigger datasets using supercomputers and machine learning algorithms. Called NOMAD, the tool can pull insights...
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How to Move HPC Forward in Europe
"With a differentiated strategy, sufficient investment, and political will, Europe has what it takes to be a global player and to achieve this ambitious goal. We...
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DEEP Project Unveils 500 Teraflop Prototype
The EU-funded DEEP Project has unveiled their innovative HPC platform: a 500 TFlop/s prototype system that implements a Cluster-Booster concept that has a lot in...
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Mellanox EDR InfiniBand Speeds OpenPOWER Platforms
Today Mellanox announced that IBM has selected the company’s ConnectX-4 EDR InfiniBand adapters and EDR 100Gb/s IB switch systems for their new Power Systems LC...
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DDN to Refresh Storage Product Portfolio at SC15
Today DDN announced plans to refresh their storage product portfolio at SC15 in Austin. "With massively scalable technology able to outpace the performance requirements...
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GPUs in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solutions
VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps companies save money, time and resources. Instead of large bulky machines on every desk in the office, companies can...
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NSF Funds Regional Data Hubs
Today the NSF announced major awards totaling more than $5 million to support four regional Data Hubs organized by some of the top universities and Big Data researchers...
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SC15 HPC Transforms – but how, what, where, when, why and for whom?
In this special guest feature from the Print'nFly Guide to SC15 in Austin, Peter ffoulkes from OrionX looks at how HPC Transforms. "If we thought the last fiveSC15...
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Agave Platform Provides Science as a Service
Work began recently on the Agave Platform, an open ‘Science-as-a-Service’ (ScaaS) cloud platform for reproducible science. Funded by a $4 Million NSF grant, the...
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Kyoto University Orders SGI UV Supercomputer for Life Sciences
Today SGI Japan announced that the Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University has ordered an SGI UV 2000 supercomputer. "The large-scale hybrid supercomputer...
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Poznan Supercomputing Center Expands CoolIT Systems Liquid Cooling to 1160 Nodes
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Poznan Supercomputing Center has ordered its second deployment of Rack DCLC data center liquid cooling systems. Building...
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European Commission Steps Up Funding of HPC
In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports that the European Commission is funding research projects and centers of excellence...
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ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics
A new EU research project called "ExaHyPE" is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUMExaHyPE...
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DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading into SC15
Today DDN announced the highest bookings quarter in the company’s history with double-digit year-over-year growth. The post DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading...
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Justin Rattner to Keynote SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop
Today the SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop announced that parallel supercomputing pioneer Justin Rattner will deliver the keynote address at their event in Austin...
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Submissions Open for ISC 2016 in Frankfurt
Submissions are now open for the ISC 2016 conference including workshops, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions, research papers, research posters, and the...
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Rogue Wave Software CodeDynamics Expands the Reach of Multithreaded Debugging
Today Rogue Wave Software announced CodeDynamics, the next generation of dynamic analysis for data-intensive commercial applications. CodeDynamics expands the reach...
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Mellanox Powers World’s First 100G End-to-End Cloud at Monash University
Today Mellanox announced that Monash University in Australia has selected the company's CloudX platform based on Mellanox’s Spectrum SN2700 Open Ethernet™ switches...
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CEA in France Selects Scality for HPC Storage
Today Scality announced that company's software-based storage for has been selected by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to power...
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